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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today features two of my favorite phrases: “space farts” and “gorilla teamwork“. I sure wish the Olympics still had artistic categories. The singularity is near! This jellyfish was made from a rat. This is probably the best possible time to…
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“Just a Bunch Of City Kids Climbing a Mountain . . .”
That’s the slogan for Washington II Washington, an annual week-long camping trip started by FOUND magazine editor Davy Rothbart. The coming trip will take kids from inner-city Washington D.C. and Southeast Michigan to Monogahela State Park in West Virginia. Washington…
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DAVID WOJNAROWICZ: The Man and The Mythology
Artist David Wojnarowicz died twenty years ago this past Sunday, on July 22, 1992, from complications caused by AIDS. Cynthia Carr has written a new biography of Wojnarowicz called Fire in the Belly. Dwight Garner reviewed that book last week at…
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The Ink on Famous Authors
We don’t usually do lists, but this one from Flavorwire features Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott and his tattoos. He’s in renowned company — the list includes the likes of Jonathan Lethem, Kathy Acker, and Rumpus columnist Rick Moody.
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Olympians Crash Grindr
Popular gay dating app Grindr crashed “within minutes” of the arrival of Olympic teams in London today — due to the spike in demand. “It happened almost as soon as the teams got here. Either loads of athletes were logging…
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Love in Lake Forest
At The Paris Review, Rumpus contributor Jason Diamond wonders about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s repeated references to Lake Forest, Illinois, determining that the city’s significance derived from the fact that it was the hometown of Fitzgerald’s first love, Ginevra King, who…
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Notable San Francisco 7/23/-7/29
This Week in San Francisco! Monday 7/23: Paula Priamos and Dana Johnson read from recently released acclaimed SoCal-culture narratives The Shyster’s Daughter and Elsewhere, CA. Free, 7pm, Books Inc. Opera Plaza. Tuesday 7/24: Inside Storytime is at the Make Out…
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Albert Camus: Solitude and Solidarity
LA Review of Books’ Robert Zaretsky reviews Albert Camus: Solitude and Solidarity: “…the book is a remarkable effort at recapturing — or, for many readers, simply capturing for the first time — a man whose life and work matter as…
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Notable New York, This Week 7/23-7/29
This week in NYC: MONDAY 7/23: Fluxblog celebrates 10 years of mp3 blogging at Housing Works Bookstore Café. Rob Sheffield, Mark Richardson, Emily Gould, Amanda Petrusich, Dick Valentine of Electric Six, Heather D’Angelo of Au Revoir Simone, and Amy Rose…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here is some psychedelic 1930s Japanese children’s illustration to start your week. Dolphins are better at math than I am. I am glad to know that someone is preserving Luke Skywalker’s home. Ahhh! Bookmaze! A physicist on Everest.
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Aurora Shooting Roundup
Our thoughts are with the victims of today’s tragedy: 12 people were killed and 59 wounded by gunman at a movie theater outside of Denver, Colorado early this morning during the release of The Dark Knight Rises. The suspected shooter,…
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Who’s the Fairest Skater of Them All?
The New Yorker‘s James Guida comments on Transworld Skateboarding‘s 30th anniversary interviews with skating legends from across skateboarding’s long history. Guida sees the project as a kind of oral history, one that chronicles skaters of all walks and ages and…